KPFA - Making Contact

Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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Since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise disturbing connections to the past. On this week’s show, we’ll hear about hard fought battles for voting rights and the implications of new laws.

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For More information:

 Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine

Civil Rights Museum of St. Augustine

http://civilrightsmuseumstaug.webs.com/

 The Formula Behind the Voting Rights Act New York Times

Southern Poverty Law Center

Department of Justice

NY Times:

ProPublica Civil Rights timeline

ACLU

Movement Music

Lyrics of the Freedom Songs

Articles, reports, etc.

Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws U.S. Government Accountability Office

 United States v. Fox, 211 F. Supp. 25 (E.D. La. 1962) District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

FBI Re-Examines 1946 Lynching Case

Remembering A Civil Rights Swim-In: It was A Milestone’

Lyndon B. Johnson speech Before Congress on Voting Rights (March 15, 1965)

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Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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This is a special encore edition.

Special thanks to The People’s Picture Company for allowing us to excerpt the film ‘Living Downstream’.

Host: Andrew Stelzer

Producers: George Lavender, Laura Flynn, Jasmin Lopez

Music:

For More Information:

Living Downstream

Living Downstream Home Video DVD

Sandra Steingraber

Dangers of Fracking

Food and Water Watch

About Air Toxics-EPA

Blacksmith Institute

Articles, reports, etc.

A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber

Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States

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From unpaid bills to entire governments facing bankruptcy, debt is never far from our minds or the news. It’s deeply embedded in our lives: our language, culture, even major religions. It’s also at the heart of many of our most pressing political debates. But have you ever thought about where debt comes from? On this edition of Making Contact we hear from Anthropologist David Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years.” Graeber traces the history of debt and asks what might we learn from how societies in the past dealt with it. His 2011 talk was recorded by Allan Campbell, producer of People United at KOOP radio, in Austin Texas and featured on Bread and Roses Radio.

Featuring: David Graeber, anthropologist and author of  “Debt: The First 5000 Years”

Host: George Lavender

More information:

David Graeber on Twitter

The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay

David Graeber Talks on Debt 5000 Years (Bread and Roses Radio)

Bread and Roses

The (Perceived) Tragedy of Greece

Jacobin:Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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This is a special encore edition. The female body as medium, and as message. How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself?  On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bodies for political protest, and as tools of self-empowerment…forcing everyone to reevaluate their perspectives on the female form.

Featuring:  Neda Topaloski & Xenia Chernyshova, Femen members; Galia Ackerman, author of the book “Femen”; Catherine King, International Museum of Women Vice President of Exhibitions and Programs; Yolando Y’Netta Harbin-Venson, Big Ol Pretty Girls owner; Jenny “Diva” Davis, Diva’s Exquisite Designs.

Host: Jasmin Lopez

More information:

Big Ol Pretty Girls

FEMEN

Global Fund for Women

Imagining Equality

Indignadas (Outraged Women)

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When journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates set out to write about police killings he went to visit Mable Jones. Back in 2000, Jones’ son, a friend of Coates from their time at Howard University, was shot and killed by police in Virginia. He was twenty-five years old. Written in the form of a letter to his own teenage son, Coates’ book “Between the World and Me” puts police shootings in a wider context.

Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke as part of the Lannan Foundation’s Pursuit of Cultural Freedom Series.

Featuring: Ta-Nehisi Coates journalist and author of “Between the World and Me”

Host: George Lavender

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On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We’ll also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then we’ll take you to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.

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This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric medications in California’s foster care system.

Special thanks to the Bay Area News Group.

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Host: Jasmin Lopez

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Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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